Johnson, Shelly

PERSONAL

Born in Pasadena, CA. Education: Pasadena Art Center College of Design, graduated, 1980.

Career:

Cinematographer. Also worked as camera operator and photographer. Painter, with work exhibited in galleries and national shows, and at the Ventura County Museum.

Member:

American Society of Cinematographers.

Awards, Honors:

American Society of Cinematographers Award nominations, outstanding achievement in cinematography in a movie of the week or pilot, 1990, for Everybody's Baby: The Rescue of Jessica McClure, and 1998, for The Inheritance; American Society of Cinematographers Award nomination, outstanding achievement in cinematography in episodic television series, 2001, for The Others; has won awards for his paintings.

CREDITS

Film Cinematographer:

Maid to Order, New Century/Vista Film Company, 1987.

Nightflyers (also known as Nightfliers and Night Flyers), New Century/Vista Film Company, 1987.

Jack's Back, Paramount, 1988.

Hitz (also known as Judgement and Judgment), Vidmark Entertainment, c. 1992.

True Lies, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1994.

Amanda, Sony Pictures Entertainment, 1996.

Jurassic Park III (also known as The Extinction: Jurassic Park 3, JP3, Jurassic Park 3, Jurassic Park 3: Breakout, Jurassic Park 3: The Extinction, Return to the Island: Jurassic Park 3, Jurassic Park III: Parque jurasico III, Jurski park 3, Le parc jurassique III, and Parc jurassic III), Universal, 2001.

The Last Castle (also known as The Castle and Untitled Rod Lurie Project), DreamWorks, 2001.

Hidalgo (also known as Dash and Ocean of Fire), Buena Vista, 2004.

I Know What Boys Like, Columbia, 2008.

They Came from Upstairs, Twentieth Century-Fox, 2008.

Film Director of Photography:

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (also known as Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2), New Line Cinema, 1991.

Sky High, Buena Vista, 2005.

Jurassic Park IV (also known as JP4, Jurassic Park 4, and Jurassic Park IV: The Extinction), Universal, 2008.

Film Work; Other:

Additional photographer, Native Son, Cinecom Pictures, 1986.

Camera operator for snow unit, True Lies, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1994.

Television Director of Photography; Series:

Charlie Grace, ABC, 1995.

Turks, CBS, 1999.

The Others, NBC, 2000.

Television Camera Operator; Series:

The Grand Tour, beginning c. 1985.

Television Director of Photography; Miniseries:

The Fire Next Time (also known as American Inferno), CBS, 1993.

Ride with the Wind, ABC, 1994.

Naomi & Wynonna: Love Can Build a Bridge (also known as Love Can Build a Bridge), NBC, 1995.

The Shining (also known as Shining, Stephen King "Shining," and Stephen King's "The Shining"), ABC, 1997.

Television Director of Photography; Movies:

Red River, CBS, 1988.

Unholy Matrimony (also known as Deadly Vows), CBS, 1988.

Everybody's Baby: The Rescue of Jessica McClure, ABC, 1989.

Love and Betrayal (also known as Throw Away Wives), Fox, 1989.

Angel of Death (also known as Intimate Terror: Angel of Death), CBS, 1990.

The Girl Who Came between Them (also known as Victim of Innocence), NBC, 1990.

Joshua's Heart, NBC, 1990.

Keeper of the City (also known as Lethal Justice), Showtime, 1991.

Back to the Streets of San Francisco, NBC, 1992.

Grave Secrets: The Legacy of Hilltop Drive (also known as Grave Secrets), CBS, 1992.

Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story (also known as Fatal Love), ABC, 1992.

Judgment Day: The John List Story, CBS, 1993.

Murder of Innocence, CBS, 1993.

Relentless: Mind of a Killer, NBC, 1993.

Nowhere to Hide, ABC, 1994.

Trick of the Eye (also known as Primal Secrets), CBS, 1994.

The Yarn Princess (also known as More Than a Miracle), ABC, 1994.

Alien Nation: Body and Soul (also known as Alien Nation—Die neue Generation, Muukalaiset—ruumis ja sielu, Os novos invasores de corpo e alma, and Przybysze—Cialo i dusza), Fox, 1995.

In the Line of Duty: Kidnapped (also known as Kidnapped: In the Line of Duty), NBC, 1995.

Alien Nation: Millennium, Fox, 1996.

Blue Rodeo, CBS, 1996.

The Devil's Child (also known as Devil to Pay), ABC, 1997.

The Inheritance (also known as Louisa May Alcott's "The Inheritance"), CBS, 1997.

Quicksilver Highway, Fox, 1997.

Tell Me No Secrets, ABC, 1997.

Virtual Obsession (also known as Host), ABC, 1998.

Come On, Get Happy: The Partridge Family Story (also known as C'Mon, Get Happy: The Partridge Family Story, Come on, get happy—Die Partridge Familie, Den sanna historien om familjen Partridge, and Partridge familyn tarina), ABC, 1999.

Additional director of photography, Manhood, Showtime, 2003.

Television Director of Photography; Specials:

Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue, multiple networks, 1990.

"Saint Maybe" (also known as "Anne Tyler's ‘Saint Maybe’"), Hallmark Hall of Fame, CBS, 1998.

"Durango" (also known as "A Rose for Annie"), Hallmark Hall of Fame, CBS, 1999.

"A Season for Miracles," Hallmark Hall of Fame (also known as Hallmark Hall of Fame: A Season for Miracles), CBS, 1999.

Television Photographer; Specials:

"Malcolm Takes a Shot," CBS Schoolbreak Special, CBS, 1990.

Television Director of Photography; Episodic:

"Korman's Kalamity," Tales from the Crypt (also known as HBO's "Tales from the Crypt"), HBO, 1990.

Television Director of Photography; Pilots:

Grand Slam, syndicated, 1990.

Nick's Game, 1993.

Frogmen, NBC, 1994.